Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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Blessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
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The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
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Hurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
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It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man’s heart through half the year.
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For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
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I was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
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War is the only game in which both sides lose.
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